Live-streamed Philippine school shooting raises alarm over ‘memetic violence’

A deadly school attack in the southern Philippines is drawing scrutiny as part of an apparent regional pattern of youth violence that echoes the staging, symbolism and online spectacle of mass shootings overseas. Authorities are investigating whether the incident in Zamboanga, in which a student reportedly broadcast pa

The suspect reportedly wore a body camera to livestream the attack

The alleged shooter managed to sneak in a .45-calibre pistol into the school on Tuesday despite the country having relatively strict gun laws - the alleged shooter is dead

The shooting on Tuesday comes just months after a separate school shooting incident in the country in which three students were killed and 20 others were injured